The Centre for Statecraft & National Security is delighted to host Prof Jason M. Blazakis for a talk about his new book, Terror Disrupted: Countering the Financing of Terrorism.
Terrorism and organised violence are crucially reliant on adequate sources of funding. Blocking those sources has thus become a key goal of national security services in most countries through the world. Terror Disrupted is the first book to provide an insider’s account of how national security services have worked to understand how terrorist groups and organisations are financed and what the best ways are to block such financing. It goes beyond banks to examine the private sector and cryptocurrency forensic firms who are on the front lines of countering terrorist access to new forms of value, like cryptocurrency. Investigating the ways the US and other governments have struggled to tackle the financing of terrorism by the radical right, it describes the various ways in which governments and the private sector can counter terrorist access to finance and fight the financing of groups like ISIS and al-Qa’ida.
About the Speaker:
Jason M. Blazakis is Professor of the Practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Executive Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC). A former U.S. government official, he led counterterrorism finance and sanctions policy, working across the United Nations, allied governments, and the private sector to disrupt terrorist and criminal networks. He is also a former member of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Jason writes for scholarly and public audiences, blending practitioner insight with accessible prose. His nonfiction covers illicit finance, sanctions, and extremist movements. At Middlebury, he teaches courses on economic statecraft, threat financing, and intelligence, mentoring students who pursue careers in public service, law, and industry. A frequent media commentator, he appears on NPR and contributes op-eds. He lives on the U.S. East Coast, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, and researching a broad range of national security issues.
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